On the 100th day of the Trump presidency, the people will gather all across the country to make their voices heard. In Washington, D.C., they will arrive on buses and trains, with thousands expected to converge on the Mall. They will start at the Capitol building, move on to surround the gates of the White […]
Month: April 2017
EARTH DAY 2017: THE NEW EPA AND THE LOOMING CLIMATE APOCALYPSE
Closing in on half-a-century since the first Earth Day and the beginning of the Environmental Protection Agency, it’s all come down to this: the new EPA administrator, Scott Pruitt, is being provided a “24/7 security detail.” This line item in the new agency budget was revealed by the Washington Post on the same day that […]
Dick Russell and Romeo Keyes talk about mentoring
In March 2017, I gave a half-hour talk about the importance of youth mentoring at the Agape Spiritual Center in Los Angeles. My brilliant young mentee, 19-year-old Romeo Keyes, followed mine with his first public speaking appearance. Romeo will also appear on a story-telling panel at the Pacifica Graduate Institute’s conference “Response at the Radical […]
ENVIRONMENTAL GROUPS AND STATES GO TO WAR WITH TRUMP
A week ago, Trump signed an executive order to forge ahead with the Keystone XL oil pipeline that had been scotched by Obama in 2015. This is the deal to send tons of dirty tar sands Koched-up oil from Canada across 1,200 miles of the U.S. to Gulf Coast refineries. Well, it ain’t going to […]
A crackdown on our First Amendment right to protest: message from Greenpeace
Your constitutional right to peaceful assembly is under attack. Stand up for free speech and the right to protest! Every Greenpeace supporter should be alarmed. Huge and growing marches and demonstrations have shown lawmakers that our resistance to Trump’s anti-climate, anti-justice agenda is gaining momentum. And behind the scenes, they are taking action to […]
A REMARKABLE STAND BY THE LOS ANGELES TIMES EDITORIAL BOARD
I’ve never seen a major newspaper do something like this. In today’s Sunday front section, the first of a series – Our Dishonest President APRIL 2, 2017 It was no secret during the campaign that Donald Trump was a narcissist and a demagogue who used fear and dishonesty to appeal to the worst in American […]